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Clare Briggs
Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Yeah, looks like the Three Groups of Voters have different takes on him. 1. AUGH I HATE HIM! I HATE…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25It's in NY. State will be fortunate to get life. I'd call it more a political assassination than a c…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Judge Crawford easily wins in Wisconsin despite or because of Musk’s 25 million spent on her opponen…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Yes, but everybody knows that Israel is held to the standard of perfection while other countries are…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25It’s being widely reported that Facebook is taking down recent posts by historian Heather Cox Richar…- on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Worth noting that the Wisconsin Supreme Court went to the Democrat by 57%.
- on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25He alone among his colleagues has finally grown some back bone. I can’t wait for the speech to be pu…
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I know the term from the famous Marx Bros* movie but I never knew until looking it up now that ‘duck soup’ was a slang term for an easy opponent or easy job.
*which I have never seen so that is probably a large part of my ignorance.Report
I’ve seen that one about a dozen times (it doesn’t age!) and I had no idea that that was a slang term.
But of course it is.Report
Also fun fact WGN is of course not the TV station but it’s also not a radio station yet, (not until the 1920’s) – it’s the original source of the moniker Worlds Greatest Newspaper, the Chicago Tribune.Report
Lastly someone crossed the timestreams between Briggs, Pat Hughes, and Derek the Die Workwear guy.Report